Equipment on the RIB

[Jono Garton]

Hi All

This is a list of equipment I have ready for the new RIB, not saying everyone should have all this equipment but you may pick up some useful bits from it. Ill post some pictures through the week.

Anyone else got any good ideas of kit to carry?

Jono


Front Locker
1 x 10kg Danforth Anchor, 10m 6mm Chain, 50m 10mm Warp
1 x 6kg Danforth Anchor, 6m 6mm Chain, 50m 10mm Warp
1 x Drogue, 10m 6mm Warp
2 x 10m Warps
2 x 5m Warps
2 x RIB Fenders
6 x Small Fenders
1 x Anchor Day Shape Ball

On Deck
1 x 6 Man ISO Liferaft

Console with Large Hatch
1 x 160 Litre Fuel Tank
1 x Fuel Water Separator
1 x Garmin 550s
1 x Icom 505 with Hailer/Fog Horn
2 x Compass
1 x Tool Kit inc knife
2 x Optima Batteries
1 x Torch
1 x Search Light
4 x Head Torches
1 x Diving Knife
2 x Fog Horn
1 x Emergency Aerial

Aft Locker
2 x Extending Paddles
1 x Boat Hook
1 x Tow Line Bag & 15m Tow Line with Bridle
5 x Manual Life Jackets 2 With Life Lines
5 x Auto Life Jackets all autos with day night signal flares
6 x TPAs
2 x 1 kg Fire Extinguishers
1 x Cat C First Aid Kit
12 x Litres of Water
1 x Collapsible Bucket
1 x Spare Prop

Safety Box 1
10 x Red Pinpoint Flares
3 x Orange Smoke Flares
7 X Red Rocket Flares
1 x Torch
1 x Knife
2 x Solas Card

Safety Box 2
Mini 1st Aid Kit
2 x Tourniquets
4 x Israeli Bandages
4 x Airways
1 x Tub of Wet Wipes
1 x Roll of cling film
1 x Pack of Sanitary Towels
Mars Bars & Kendal mint Cake
1 x Handheld VHF Radio
1 x Fog Horn

Bilge
1 x 3000gph Bilge Pump
1 x 3000gph Auto Bilge Pump
1 x Whale Hand Bilge Pump

A Frame
LED Nav Lights
Echomax Radar Reflector with light
2 x Life Rings
1 x V Tronix Masthead Whip Aerials

Helmsmen & Navigator
Personal EPIRB Each
Knife Each
Day Night Signal Flare Each
Handheld VHF Each

[biffer]

i hope you have enough free board at the transom to cope with all that weight, i had this conversation with the mca re coding and they're totally oblivious that they're making the boats unseaworthy by making us load all this kit on for coding, not saying yours is not seaworthy but you will be carrying around at least 2 extra people in weight every time you go out, i'm all for safety but it works both ways, in all the years i've been ribbing i've know of only one rib that has sunk without trace, ribs are the safest things in the water yet the mca still generalize the coding rules, the anchors they make us carry will also hold a yacht of the same waterline length and they are at best twice as heavy at worst three or four times as heavy, there you go got my blood pressure up again, think i'll have another cuppa!

[Mollers]

There are two pieces of equipment missing from your list that I can see.

1x RN Air/sea Rescue Merlin flying above you at all times.
1x RNLI Severn class in close proximity at all times.

Add those two and you should be ok, but you can never be TOO safe.

Well done Jono for highlighting how woefully under-equipped most of us are in the safety dept. I'm off today to buy all of that stuff and a bigger boat.

[Pete7]

Jono, some questions,

Why two Danforth anchors, and the rope size looks a little thin for a coded boat unless the rules have changed it used to be 12mm. How do you fly the anchor day shape ball? photo please.

Why so many red flares and no white? I would have thought the normal coastal pack would do.

Do you know how to use a tourniquet? dangerous piece of kit which you can do more harm than good with. Why 4 x airways? who is using them?

Why some many knives, you could start a small war with all that lot. Why a personal EPIRB each? do you really need them on a rib used for coastal passages.

You need some more fire extinguishers.

Why 10 life jackets? but only 12 litres of water? thought the recommendation was 2 litres for each person on board.

Some good items listed though but probably a bit OTT unless you are corssing the Atlantic.

Pete

[Mollers]

Yeah, 6mm chain? Is that correct?

I use 10mm, I tried 12mm, but it nearly killed me hauling it all back onboard. Spittle123 got that with the 6.5m.

[chewy]

I believe Jono has completed the RNLI's new first aid course which includes the use of tourniquet. Its dangerous in the wrong hands but in the right nads its a lifesaver, better to lose a limb then be dead. The Israeli bandages are an excellent bit of kit too. Where did you get yours from Jono as our Dr on station is trying to find out?

[sheldon6]

Jeezzz, reminds me of the parrafin man, he had everthing. Perhaps he's a mobile Chandlery!!

[willfinch36]

Do I need all the equiptment on my dads yacht tender?? an avon 2.80 rover RIB lite?? has a 4hp yamaha!! haha

[chewy]

An anchor would be good, second thought just take some rope and use the engine!

[bedajim]

Originally Posted by Mollers

Yeah, 6mm chain? Is that correct?

I use 10mm, I tried 12mm, but it nearly killed me hauling it all back onboard. Spittle123 got that with the 6.5m.

You can borrow some of mine i've got plenty